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Del Boy back – as a teenager
The nation's favourite wheeler-dealer, Del Boy Trotter, is to return to the nation's TV screens, it was announced yesterday, in a new comedy drama about his teenage years.
The BBC has commissioned the 90-minute show, Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Chips, which will focus on the escapades of the Trotter family in the 1960s.
As well as the young Derek Trotter, the show will also include teenage versions of many of the familiar names from Only Fools and Horses, including Boycie, Trigger and Denzil.
Casting for the show is only just beginning, so the hunt is on to find an
actor to play the young version of the Peckham trader.
The programme, written by Fools and Horses creator John Sullivan, is set in 1960, with Del aged just 16 – too young to be driving his legendary yellow Reliant van.
"Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Chips will be set in the real Sixties, before The Beatles and Mary Quant made London the coolest place on the planet," Sullivan said.
"The drama will feature south London at its least glamorous, where money was scarce, the staple diet was rock salmon and chips, and the flicks offer the only hint of glamour. And it will give us a bit of an insight into why Del and Rodney turned out the way they did."
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